Selma E. Burdett

Selma Edwina Burdett was an American woman who accompanied William Walker's filibusters to Nicaragua during the Filibuster War of 1856-1857. She was concerned about the reimplementation of slavery under Walker, and she left the capital of Granada with the other black members of the expedition after Walker announced the repeal of the 1821 emancipation law and the start of black and Native American slavery.